Cookie Settings

Our website uses cookies to collect information. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or other devices as you browse our website.

Upon agreeing to this policy, cookies will help analyze web traffic or will let you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Before learning more about Broadband Forum’s products or services, you may need to provide personal data. However, not providing Broadband Forum with certain data may mean that we cannot provide you with certain products or services or respond to any inquiries or issues that you have raised.

Our Cookies

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website. The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:

Persistent cookies. These cookies may be stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognize your computer when you visit our website and to personalize our website for you.

Session cookies. These cookies do not operate once you log off completely from the website whereas persistent cookies remain on your hard drive for an extended period afterward. We do not store Personally Identifiable Information in our cookies nor do we link the information in our cookies to our users’ Personally Identifiable Information.

NameProviderTypeDurationPurpose
_utmaGoogle Analytics1st Party Persistent Cookie2 years from the last updateThis cookie is used to determine unique visitors to the website. This is written the first time a user visits the site and is updated with each visit. If deleted a new unique cookie will be written during the next visit.
_utmbGoogle Analytics1st Party Persistent Cookie30 mins after the last update/visitor inactivityThis is used to establish and continue a user session on the site. Each time a user visits a different page on the site the cookie is updated.
If you have deleted this cookie, a new one is written and a new session is established each time you visit.
_utmcGoogle Analytics1st Party Session CookieExpires on exit of sessionThis cookie is operated in conjunction with the _utmb cookie to determine whether or not to establish a new session for the user and expires when exiting the site.
_utmzGoogle Analytics1st Party Persistent Cookie6 months from set/updateThis cookie stores the referral type used by the visitor to reach the website, whether via a direct method, referring link, site search, or campaigns such as AdWords or an email link.
It is used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within the site. The cookie is updated with each page view on the site.
_utmvGoogle Analytics1st Party Persistent Cookie2 years from set/updateThis cookie is used to analyse custom user segments and is used for displaying custom statistical information in google analytics on site visitor trends and usage patterns.

Here are the ways we use cookies:

  • To record whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our website. This is solely to comply with the law. If you have chosen not to accept cookies, we will not use cookies for your visit, but unfortunately, our site will not work well for you;
  • To allow essential parts of our website to operate for you;
  • To operate our content management system;
  • To operate the online notification form – the form that you use to contact us for any reason. This cookie is set on your arrival at our website and deleted when you close your browser;
  • To collect statistical information about how visitors use our site. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited;

Third-party cookies

These cookies may be set through our website (ex: Google Ads) by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other websites. They do not store direct personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies in your browser settings, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Please note that third parties (including, for example advertising networks and providers or external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies, and most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of the website if cookies are disabled.

For more information on how to disable cookies, you should consult the documentation or instructions that accompanied your web browser or by visiting the Federal Trade Commission’s website at http://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy/internet-cookies or https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0042-online-tracking.

If you have any questions regarding the cookie policy, please contact us through the contact page.